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2452707 No.2452707 [Reply] [Original]

what books are literary awesome?
make your hair stand on end, exhilarating and literally awesome, but also sad and moody ?

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>> No.2452729

>>2452720
>>2452726
This has potential, keep it coming

>> No.2452731

>>2452729
Read the sticky you lazy dullard.

>> No.2452733

>>2452731
Fuck off, I said it because I've read most of /lit/'s essentials.

Hence my reasoning for it to continue, because I'd read both The Stranger and Moby-Dick

>> No.2452735

my problem with moby-dick is that at times its awesome, poetic, and fun to read, then at other times Mark Twain goes off on tangents about whaling and whaleology which are grossly inaccurate and really tedious to read...

if only those chapters were removed

>> No.2452741

>>2452735
THE FUCK IS GOING ON TODAY?

COUPLE HOURS BACK SOMEONE GETS BALZAC CONFUSED WITH ZOLA, AND NOW WE'RE GETTING MELVILLE CONFUSED WITH TWAIN?

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>>2452735
>Mad Melville face.jpg

Do like Christians do with the book of Numbers. Skim and skip.

>> No.2452751

>>2452742
OKAY

ARE YOU THE SAME GUY THAT KEEPS BRINGING THIS UP?

I RECOMMEND LIFE AND FATE, CERTAINLY HAS ITS EXHILARATING MOMENTS BUT ALSO INCREDIBLY DEPRESSING AT TIMES

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>> No.2452780

>>2452735
>Mark Twain goes off on tangents about whaling and whaleology

It all works towards the overarching theme. Those chapters are good.

>> No.2452784

>>2452780
ARE YOU AMERICAN?

>> No.2452786

>>2452784
ARE YOU AUSTRALIAN?

>> No.2452787

>>2452786
YES, BUT EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS

>> No.2452789

>>2452741

gottcha

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PICTURE FOR PREVIOUS REC

>> No.2452794

>>2452787

Yeah, I'm American.

>> No.2452795

The Sun Also Rises.
For some reason a lot of people in here dont like Hemingway, but the descriptions of Paris and Spain and some of the parts with Brett are pretty great.

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This book man, this book

>> No.2452800

Journey to the End of the Night
Death on the Installment Plan

These are 2 of the most entertaining and bleakly hilarious novels ever written, and they deeply influenced numerous authors afterwards.

>> No.2452803

>>2452800
I'LL BE CHECKING OUT DEATH ON THE INSTALMENT PLAN SOON, THE ONLY BOOK RECOMMENDED IN THIS THREAD THAT I HAVE YET TO READ ;.;

>> No.2452804

Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

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>>2452804
NICE, BUT I'M STILL IN

THIS NOVEL HAS A NICE COMPARISON BETWEEN THE VARYING CYCLES OF LIFE OF COMPLETE STRANGERS, OBSERVED BY AN INDIVIDUAL USING A PEEP-HOLE. FROM FIRST LOVE, TO DEATH.

NOT EXACTLY 'EXHILARATING' BUT A WORTHWHILE READ REGARDLESS

>> No.2452815

>>2452814

I'M SURE I WILL, THANKS AGAIN FOR THE ADVICE.

>> No.2452814

>>2452803

THATS GREAT NEWS, HOPE YOU REALLY ENJNOY IT.

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>> No.2452818

>>2452814
YEAH, AS SOON AS I GET MY NEXT KINDLE I'LL GET IT.

>> No.2452820

>>2452817
THIS ONE DOESN'T COUNT BECAUSE '77

>> No.2452819

>>2452803
I would really suggest you read both together if you can. I personally don't think it matters which you start with, but Death on the Installment Plan makes much heavier use of some experimental devices Celine used in Journey, including numerous ellipses and delirious episodes/dream sequences that are almost indistinguishable from actual plot.

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>>2452820
Might not count for you, but it counts for the thread. The OP didn't mention anything about not wanting books more recent than 1950.

This one I'd say counts too, though the main character adopts a weird optimism by the end of his life, despite the ridiculous number of tragedies he goes through.

>> No.2452823

>>2452819

OK I WILL RE-READ MY KINDLE EDITION OF JTTEOTN THEN PROGRESS ONTO DOTIP. THANKS FOR THE ADVICE.

>> No.2452824

>>2452822
BUT MY SELF-IMPOSED RULES PREVENT ME FROM THE POSSIBILITY OF READING IT ;.;

>> No.2452826

>>2452819
YEAH BEHEMOTH IS PRETTY BOSS

>> No.2452827

>>2452824

Do your 'self-imposed rules' include an heroing?

>> No.2452828

LOVING THE SUGGESTIONS SO FAR GUYS, PLEASE, DO KEEP THEM COMING.

I WILL NOT BE CONTENT UNTILL MY KINDLE IS FILLED UP WITH STONE COLD CLASSICS, LOL!

>> No.2452980

FUCK YEAH, MULTIPLE CAPSGUYS

>> No.2453001

Please lower your voice.

>> No.2453004

>>2453001
WHAT, WHY

WHY DID YOU NOT RECOMMEND BOOKS

>> No.2453059

Forth on the Daydream by Boris Vian.

If you can read french, go for Les Fleurs du Mal by Beaudelaire. Since it's poetry I wouldn't advice to read a translation.

>> No.2453080

>>2453059
IS THIS A NOVEL

CANNOT FIND IT ON GOODREADS

>> No.2453102

Bump

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>> No.2453211

>>2453059
dontberidiculousbalkybartokamous

side by side translations are quite common. seek 'em. ( got my Rimbaud right 'chere)

>> No.2453340

>>2453059

i got a side by side translation of flowers of evil
its good and nothing is really lost in translation...

>> No.2453359

>>2453340
"AK-47. When you absolutely, positively gotta kill every motherfucker in the room. Accept no substitutes." Hitherto anti-gun, your post makes me want to go buy an AK an point it to your face.

I do not spit on the translation of les fleurs du mal but French and English poetry just don't work the same way. English poetry is more musical whereas French poetry uses more specific tropes related to the French language.If you think nothing is lost you got a deep misunderstanding of the French text; someone finding Baudelaire poetry as good in an other language as in French just don't "get" the original text.
And vice-versa. Shakespeare is very good once translated but the magical essence that made him one of the most influential writers is somewhat ripped.
It's like translating a pun. When a pun can be translated without modifying it's meaning is a pure coincidence, almost a miracle; Poetry is alike.

>> No.2454074

Bamp

>> No.2454397

I THINK CAPS LOCK SHOULD BE THE NORM ON /LIT/, LIKE A BOARD CULTURE. WHO AGREES?